Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'backslashes' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
backslashes
Authored by: robg on Nov 27, '01 07:15:27PM

There's an annoying glitch in the Geeklog (the engine for the site) comment/hint parser. Any backslash is immediately eliminated when previewed. So you can try to trick it by using the HTML code for a backslash - "& # 092;" (entered without the spaces). Make sure you post in HTML mode. However, there's a second glitch -- after previewing, you'll see that the HTML code in your original post has been converted to a backslash, which will be eliminated if you preview again. So you have to remember to re-type the HTML code. The easiest way to do this is to copy all the text in the input box and just re-paste it after previewing.

So to get this backslash: \ to appear, I had to type in its HMTL code into my 'final draft' comment, and then NOT preview the comment but submit it right away. Quite frustrating! Which leads me to my question -- if there are any mySQL/PHP/regex experts that would like to take a look at the parser, please let me know! :-)

-rob.



[ Reply to This | # ]